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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) granted the distinguished associate membership status to 215 passed finalists of the chartered accounting course offered by the Institute at the 2012 annual convocation held at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla on Thursday. Joining a fraternity of nearly 4200 existing CA Sri Lanka members, the ...
Camps which housed 300,000 displaced people by the end of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict have now all closed, three years after the war ended, the military said on Tuesday. Once one of the world’s biggest camps, the final batch of 361 families left Menik Farm in the northern district of Vavuniya on Monday, military spokesman ...
Menik Farm in Sri Lanka, once the world’s largest camp for people displaced from the conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 has closed, as the last remaining inhabitants leave the camp. “This is a milestone event towards ending a chapter of displacement in Sri Lanka some three years after the civil war which ended in ...
Sri Lanka participated at the annual IFTM Top Resa (International French Travel Market) that was held in Paris from 18 September to 21 September. Flagship fair for the tourism sector, IFTM Top Resa brings every year thousands of travel agents from across the world that come to present their products and services to the industry’s ...
CHILD abuse hits headlines with sickening frequency in Sri Lanka, but new data suggests that victims have to wait as much as six years, often enduing mind-numbing stigma and distress, before they are given justice. IRIN reported over the weekend that Sri Lanka is taking as long as six years to prosecute criminals who abuse ...
What is planning? Planning (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organising the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning involves the creation and maintenance of a plan. As such, planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, ...
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Moving beyond financials and laying a heavy emphasis on the human dimensions of doing business in the world today, the CIMA Management Accountants’ Conference 2012 was aptly themed ‘Reboot your business beyond financials,’ highlighting that such aspects will be key to getting things moving again and sustaining success in the long run. ...
A number of articles which appeared in print media in the recent past signify the volatility in the economy. High volatility leads to vulnerability. Volatility and vulnerability are reflections of the haphazard nature of the economic policies and poor economic governance in a country. What is volatility? Volatility is the severity and the frequency with ...
Fitch Ratings has assigned the Ceylon Income Fund an ‘A-(lka)’ National Fund Credit Rating. This is the first fund rating assigned by an international rating agency in Sri Lanka. The fund primarily invests in corporate debt instruments and is managed by Ceylon Asset Management (CAM). The ‘A-(lka)’ National Fund Credit Rating is driven by the ...
Weather and ground conditions hog attention ahead of ICC Women’s World Twenty20 kick-off today Even as the men’s competition is nearing the Super Eights stage, eight teams are preparing to battle it out in the third edition of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in Galle, starting from Wednesday (September 26). Sri Lanka and South ...
A look at the history of cricket’s support for UNAIDS and UNICEF over the past decade The sight of leading cricketers wearing red ribbons on their shirts at ICC events has become a familiar one in recent years, but have you ever wondered why the players do this? South Asia, Africa and Caribbean, three geographical ...
India must have believed Christmas had come early, as England gifted wickets away on a platter to subside to a 90-run drubbing in the Group A clash between the two teams in the ICC World Twenty20 2012 at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday night. Chasing India’s 170 for 4, England collapsed to 80 all ...
Till recently, the only times you heard the names Oddusuddan, Kilinochchi, Jaffna or Vavuniya was in bleak dispatches about skirmishes that took place in the North and East of Sri Lanka, with the regions bearing the brunt of a three-decade long civil war. With peace returning to the region, cricket has not been far behind, ...
Mobitel, the country’s state owned mobile communication company intends to play a key role in national information and communication technology (ICT) transformation. It is going through an organisational revitalisation process in order to gear up to make a greater contribution towards national transformation led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Under its ‘Change to Lead.Now’ organ...
By D.C. Ranatunga Gnanavalli grew up in the Eskdale Division of Park Estate near Ragalla. Her parents were employees of the estate. She read her first letters at the Child Development Centre (CDC) in the estate. With the grounding she got there, she continued her studies until she got admitted to the Eastern University and ...
Sri Lankan plantation industry veteran Dan Seevaratnam was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award at The Asia Pacific HRM Congress, one of the most prestigious human resource summits in the world held in Bangalore, India, last week. The award marks a significant achievement for the local plantation sector which is a people intense industry, being ...
The beautifully sculptured dancing figurines stood out striking against the milky white backdrop under a shower of golden light. Immersed partially on the wall right across were more female figures adorned by the glitter and glamour of an artistically designed creative selection of jewellery. Their dancing postures heightened by their ivory and pale golden dresses ...
World Duty Free Group (WDFG), the leading duty free operator at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) along with the reputed beverage supplier, Brown Forman Worldwide, commenced another exciting mega promotion, ‘Cricket Fever 2012’ on 1 September to coincide with the ICC T20 Cricket World Cup, which will be held in Sri Lanka this September and ...
Niru Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. opened its new office at Access Towers, Union Place last Thursday, which will handle sorting and grading of diamonds and dispatching orders for customers of prestigious Niru Diamonds Ltd., Israel. The office was declared open by Gem and Jewellery Authority of Sri Lanka Chairman Prasad Galhena and the event was attended ...
Central Hospital Ltd, an internationally accredited multi-specialty hospital of the Asiri Group take pleasure in announcing, that the hospital was certified with the ISO 22000:2005 Standard for Food Safety Management with effect from 9 August. The ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System Certification is the highest and most recognised food-related certification in the world. It ...
Recording a year-on-year sales volume growth of 400% in the current financial year and targeting a further 100% growth in the year ahead, Carmart, the sole distributor in Sri Lanka for Peugeot, has created a strong niche in the market and is poised for aggressive expansion in the coming year with an extremely diversified product ...
Standard Chartered, in furtherance of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed with Youth Business Sri Lanka (YBSL), a project of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), handed out micro-financing facilities to 29 young men and women of Jaffna who had been affected by the war to start up businesses, on Friday, 21 September 2012. Nine ...
Reuters: A deeply divided and unproductive Congress wrapped up its final business before November’s elections early on Saturday as the US Senate passed a stopgap measure to fund federal programs and avoid an 1 government shutdown. The 62-30 vote on the funding bill, which now moves to President Barack Obama’s desk to be signed into ...
Leaving nobody out in the cold In India, the Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion defined the concept as: “The process of ensuring access to financial services, timely and adequate credit where needed by vulnerable groups such as weaker sections and low income groups, at an affordable cost.” At the recent FutureGov SAARC Summit in Colombo, ...
Bartleet Finance PLC, which has been in the forefront of providing financial services in the Embilipitiya area, moved to a convenient and spacious location in the heart of the town to provide better services to its clients. The relocation will provide it greater opportunity to synergise with its customers and enhance their potential to grow ...
In strong signs of private sector expansion in the country, Sri Lankaandrsquo;s Company Registrar has garnered more than US$ 13.6 million (Rs 1.8 billion) in its Company Fund in on-going operations and plans to go high tech with the backing of its rich coffers.
World Twenty20 hosts Sri Lanka are to beef up security after angry fans clashed with baton wielding police in Hambantota where the home side lost a match to South Africa, officials said Sunday. Local residents in the southern port town stormed the ground after they were told that tickets for Saturday’s match at the 35,000-capacity ...
Quality recognition for Panasonic ceiling fans distributed island wide by Softlogic A product of internationally recognised consumer electronics brand Panasonic has been awarded the Sri Lanka Standard (SLS) 814 certification, one of Sri Lanka’s most exclusive quality recognitions. Awarded by the Sri Lanka Standards Institute, the SLS certification recognises design excellence and functional ...
The CIMA Management Accountants Conference 2012: ‘Reboot your business beyond financials’ is being held today at Hotel Galadari from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. With thought-provoking insights from management accounting professionals and industry leaders, the conference aims to equip Sri Lanka’s business community with best practices and techniques so businesses can be revamped to accele...
Previously observed proceedings of Sri Lanka’s Fonseka and Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim Here to observe proceedings re Rishad Bathiudeen M.P. Acted as Counsel on world’s longest sea chase incident FV Viarsa 1 The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) observer, Australian Queen’s Counsel Mark Trowell has arrived in Sri Lanka today morning. “I am here on behalf ...